Category Archives: Saturday Night Fun

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for this week is to find your ancestors in 1909! I used the 1910 census and found each of my living great and great-great-grandparents. I only had 1 living grandparent and he is listed with his parents. I had never noticed before the number of Russell County relatives that lived on the same road!

My g-g-grandfather Elias Smith had passed away in 1885 and g-g-grandmother Victoria Coffey (age 62) had remarried and divorced and was living on Parks Ridge Road in North Jamestown, Russell County, Kentucky.

Great-grandfather Enos Bennett (age 22) was living with his sister and her husband – Laura Ellen and Uriah Stephens on Clear Fork Road in North Jamestown, Russell County, Kentucky.

G-G-grandfather Silas Jackson Bennett had passed away, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Rumbo (age 50) is missing in action – although every census I have for her from 1870 to 1820 is from Russell County, Kentucky.

Great-grandmother Lelar George (age 14) was living with her grandparents (Andrew Stephens and Lucy Stephens) on Clear Fork Road in North Jamestown, Russell County, Kentucky. Both of her parents had passed away.

When I was a child, we would go to visit my paternal grandmother. She had folders full of charts and letters and I was fascinated by it all. My dad thought it was a huge waste of time and didn’t want to talk about any of it, but I felt like it was a challenge to be solved!

I didn’t really start my own research until I had started a family of my own, but I have loved every minute of being a “genealogy detective” who solves those mysteries! Thank heavens for the internet and the opportunities we have for research now that my grandmother never imagined!